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		Marvin Lee Minsky, (August 9, 1927 - January 24, 2016 [1]) was an American mathematician, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. Along with John McCarthy, he co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory. In 1951, Minsky built the first randomly wired neural network [2] learning machine, SNARC, and in 1969, along with Seymour Papert authored Perceptrons, which became the foundational work in the analysis of artificial neural networks [3], also refered as the abandonment of connectionism, a controversy in the history of AI concerning the Perceptron and its main researcher Frank Rosenblatt [4].
Marvin Minsky in 2008 [5]

HAL 9000

Minsky and Jack Good were adviser of the 1968 Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey, concerning Self-replicating machine and HAL 9000, the Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, and were referred to both in the movie and the book ^{[6] [7]}.

Selected Publications

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• Marvin Minsky (1954). Neural Nets and the Brain Model Problem. Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University
• John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon (1955). A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence.
• Marvin Minsky (1967). Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines. Prentice-Hall, ISBN:0-13-165563-9
• Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert (1969). Perceptrons. ^{[10] [11]}
• Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert (1972). Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry. The MIT Press, 2nd edition with corrections
• Marvin Minsky (1974). Framework for Representing Knowledge 1974. MIT-AI Laboratory Memo 306
• Marvin Minsky (1980). K-Lines: A Theory of Memory. Cognitive Science 4, 117-133, pdf ^[12]
• Marvin Minsky (1986). The Society of Mind. Simon & Schuster ^[13]
• Marvin Minsky (1988). Why People Think Computers Can't. MIT
• Marvin Minsky (2006). The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. Simon & Schuster ^[14]

Forum Posts

• Marvin Minsky and the look-ahead efficiency in chess by Julien Marcel, CCC, February 06, 2012

External Links

• Marvin Minsky from Wikipedia
• Marvin Minsky - Wikiquote
• Marvin Minsky's Home Page
• Marvin L. Minsky | MIT Media Lab
  Marvin Minsky 1927-2016 | MIT Media Lab
• The AI Genealogy Project :: Marvin Minsky
• Marvin Minsky essays - OLPC
• Marvin Minsky | 1995 Computer Pioneer Award from IEEE Computer Society Awards
• Scientist on the Set: An Interview with Marvin Minsky by David G. Stork, from HAL'S LEGACY: Online ^[15]
• Marvin Minsky, “father of artificial intelligence,” dies at 88 | MIT News, January 25, 2016
• Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 by Glenn Rifkin, The New York Times, January 25, 2016
• AI pioneer Marvin Minsky dies at 88 by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, January 27, 2016
• Ed Fredkin reads Marvin Minsky for the Celebration of John McCarthy's Accomplishments on March 25, 2012, at Stanford University, YouTube Video
  

References

1. ^ Marvin Minsky 1927-2016 | MIT Media Lab
2. ^ Randomly Wired Neural Nets
3. ^ Marvin Minsky from Wikipedia
4. ^ Frank Rosenblatt (1962). Principles of Neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the Theory of Brain Mechanisms. Spartan Books
5. ^ Marvin Minsky visiting the OLPC offices, August 26, 2008, Marvin Minsky from Wikipedia
6. ^ 2001: A Space Odyssey | Science | Accuracy
7. ^ Marvin Minsky from Wikipedia | Biography
8. ^ Marvin Minsky's Home Page | Some Publications
9. ^ Selected Publications of Marvin Minsky
10. ^ The abandonment of connectionism in 1969 - Wikipedia
11. ^ Frank Rosenblatt (1962). Principles of Neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the Theory of Brain Mechanisms. Spartan Books
12. ^ K-line (artificial intelligence) from Wikipedia
13. ^ Matthew L. Ginsberg (1991). Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 48
14. ^ Terasem Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness - Marvin Lee Minsky discussing his book, The Emotion Machine
15. ^ Review of HAL's Legacy

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